Oral QuestionDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

“What recent steps he has taken to support businesses and their supply chains.”

Tabled: 20 December 2018Answered: 8 January 2019

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Jess Phillips)

The Government have an ambitious programme to reform and improve how child exploitation is tackled. We are introducing a new offence of child criminal exploitation, establishing the independent inquiry into grooming gangs and the national policing operation, and expanding programmes to improve support to child victims of exploitation and trafficking.